VARIOUS - Cosmic American Music: Motel California JOHN GÜRTLER AND JAN MISERRE Times was written by Fran

Times was written by Fran Healy in his studio on the edge of Skid Row

The album is punctuated with a string section (that recalls David Axelrod)

but things didn’t truly take shape until they entered Barber Shop Studios with producer/engineer Brett Romnes (Oso Oso

Standing in opposition to the UK norm of post punk

The result had always seemed either mawkish

VARIOUS - Cosmic American Music: Motel California JOHN GÜRTLER AND JAN MISERRE Times was written by Fran2LP Black Vinyl housed in a gatefold tip on sleeve. A companion to 2016's private country rock overview Cosmic American Music, this second volume goes way past Gram Parsons' country rock plastic dry fuck and explores the twangy falsettos and commercial curiosity that sent the Eagles soaring. Though rooted in the west coast folk rock of the late 60s, these new kids in town rendered a safe for the suburbs sound bleached of the hippie era's political